Inside No 9 has yet to even air on BBC Two, but Shearsmith has told Chortle that series two will be filmed in the autumn.

"There's a few things which I'm doing," the writer-actor said. 'We have now got a second series of No 9."

He added: "We've got to get the scripts going because I think we film them at the end of autumn, so we want to make sure that they're good and ready.

"You want to set yourself a bar quite high where you can look back at the first series and think, 'Oh god these are really good, we'd better carry on and top them again'. We've got to get our thinking caps on again."